Happiness

The highest happiness on earth is marriage

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys

Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy

From happiness to suffering is a step; from suffering to happiness is an eternity.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale

You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do

The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice

There is little success where there is little laughter

Happily in this community we all are bred and born to work; and this honorable mark, set on us all, should bind together the various portions of the community